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PAGE TWO CHICAGO EXAMINER, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1916. red buildings. As easily as though swung on stout wires she landed in the oval field encircled by the training track of Willis Sharpe Kilmer's stock farm, on the outskirts of BInghamton. WAITS IN MACHINE. While the men and women who saw her final swoop rushed to her, she sat quietly in the plane waiting to be told where she was. "What town is this?" she demanded. " And how far have I come?" She was told that the town was Binghamton and that she had traveled 707 miles. The following statement, accrediting Miss Law with the cross-country nonstop record, was issued to-night by Alan R. Hawley and Henry Woodhouse, of the contest committee of the Aero Club of America: "Miss Ruth Law left Chicago at 7:45 a. m., being timed by Mr. James S. Stevens, vice president of the Aero Club of Illinois and representative of the Aero Club of America. SPEED 102 MILES AN HOUR. "At 10:23, western time, Miss Law passed Vermilion, Ohio, the report saying that she was flying at a speed of 102 miles an hour. Vermilion is given as 308 miles from Chicago. "At 12, eastern time, Miss Law passed over Jamestown, N. Y. The next report stated that she had taken gasoline and had started at 5:24 for New York. She passed over Cameron, which is twenty-five miles due south of Hornell, at 3:40, and landed at Binghamton, N. Y., for the evening at 4:45. "The distance between Chicago and Hornell by air line is 590 miles. Therefore Miss Law betters Victor Carlstrom's record for nonstop, cross-country flight from Chicago to Erie, which was 452 miles, and becomes the holder of the American Cross-country nonstop record." LANDING PLACE PREPARED. AT Governor's Island preparations had been made to receive Miss Law. Major Carl F. Hartman of the United States Signal Corps was notified by telephone that Miss Law would be in New York at 5:30 or thereabouts tonight. She had asked that red fire and lights be set burning on the aviation field: As there w as no red fire on the island, Major Hartman ordered pans, filled with gasoline and rags, set on the seawall and fired at sundown. At 5:13 they were touched off. The island sprang ablaze. From the ships and ferries in the bay it seemed as though the whole military base had burst into fire, and a hundred calls came to headquarters to learn what the trouble was. Miss Law Warned of Death at Start. Ruth Law proved herself a heroine before she began her record breaking flight. Ruth Bancroft Law's start from Chicago was made in the face of extremelly adverse weather conditions. Her machanicians pleaded with her for three hours, while her machine was being overhauled and a trial flight over Grant Park made, to postpone the start until the gale that blew from the northeast abated. When she ordered herself strapped into her seat there were tears in the eyes of her birdman friends, and the prediction was freely made that she would never touch ground alive. Miss Law slept on the roof of the MISS LAW TO MAKE NEW TRIAL FOR RECORD Ruth Law is not content with the laurels won yesterday, but will return to Chicago immediately and make a second attempt to reach New York in a ten-hour, non-stop flight. Charles Oliver, her husband and manager, left Chicago for New York last night. He announced that he would dismantle the machine and ship it back. He hopes Miss Law will be ready for a second flight by Saturday. Mr. Oliver intends to replace the present motor with a new one capable of driving the aeroplane 150 miles an hour. [[newsprint photograph]] [[caption]] SUPER-BIRDWOMAN MISS RUTH LAW, aviatrix, photographed behind the levers of her Curtiss "baby biplane" in Grant Park yesterday just before start of record-breaking flight to Binghamton, N.Y. [[/caption]] [[?]] by International. TEUTONS TAKE 20,000 MEN IN ROUMANIA Berlin Announces Steady Advance in Two Weeks' Campaign Beyond the Transylvania Alps. LONDON, Nov. 19.- The extent of the last three weeks' gains by General von Falkenhayn in Transylvania, and the menace they hold to Roumania, are indicated by to-day's official bulletin of the Berlin War Office. The report states that between November 1 and 18 the Teutons captured 189 officers and 19,338 men. It indicated for the first time the real objective of the Teuton campaign in that theater of war. This object is to seize the entire western Roumanian railroad net, including every road leading to Bucharest. It is already partly accomplished. Roumania's ominous situation, military critics conceded to-day, is little altered by the fact that King Ferdinand's troops and the Russians are impeding the Teuton advance. ROUMANIANS SCORE SUCCESS. At one point to-day the Roumanians even scored a local success, capturing four officers and eighty men, two cannon and five ammunition wagons in the region of Dragoslavele. As against this, to-day's enumeration of successes by Berlin is supplemented by the Russian War Office, which admitted a further retreat of the Roumanians in the Jiul and Alt Valleys. Petrograd adds that the Roumanians took a series of heights in the Tirgujiulij Valley. BERLIN REPORTS SUCCESS. BERLIN, Nov. 19.- To-day's official report on the Roumanian situation says: East of the Putna Valley in the Gyergo Mountains, Bavarian regiments repulsed advances of strong Russian forces south of Hegyes. Our operations for two weeks on the Transylvania southern front have taken the course intended. The exit from the mountain narrows into the Wallachian Plain, in spite of tenacious Roumanian resistance, was forced by Austro-Hungarian troops. ROUMANIAN FORCES BROKEN. Strong Roumanian forces between the Jiul and Gilort rivers were broken in the battle of Tirgukiulij. They were defeated with ex- Serbs Encircle Grunishte and Repulse Bulgars French and Russian Troops Make New Progress South of Monastir. Continued From First Page. tion came as the climax of a bitterly tenacious battle in which attackers and defenders rivaled in gallantry and stubbornness. The defense became untenable after the Franco-Serbian forces had wrested the naturally powerful positions on the Cerna River from the Bulgars and Germans, at the same time smashing the southern approaches. Screening the gradual evacuation of the city, the defenders battled stubbornly for every inch of ground in the Cerna Bend. Even now fighting there is in full swing. The French war office reports the repulse of new Bulgarian counter-attacks against Hill 1,212. It was the possession of this height, taken Friday, that gave the Franco-Serbian artillery the vantage points which forced the evacuation of Monastir proper. GREATEST GAIN OF YEAR. The full of Monastir to the allies in regarded here as the greatest achievement of the Entente arms this Fall, overshadowing in moral respects even the successes on the Somme. Military experts concede that it is a victory of moral rather than strategic importance. Hd the blow been struck a month or two earlier it is believed that it would have tremendous effect on the whole military situation in the Balkans. Coming, however, on the eve of Winter, it cannot be expected to usher in a headlong advance northward. Its influences on the chief aim of the allied Macedonian campaign, namely, the cutting of the Orient railway, is nil. The distance from Monastir to Nish, where the great railroad swings eastward into Bulgaria, is no less than 165 miles. Innumerable mountains, impassable during Winter, block the advance. TWO VITAL POINTS. In the two respects, however, the capture of Monastir is an accomplishment of inestimable value: 1. For its moral influence in ushering in on the face of it the reconquest of Serbia, to which the Entente is pledged, and showing what may be done next Spring. 2. As a precautionary step to strengthen the allies' front in Macedonia against any possible Winter thrusts by the Bulgar-Teuton army. Monastir in their hands, the allies have now a straight front line to Seres, 117 miles. FRENCH ANNOUNCE CAPTURE. PARIS, Nov 19.---The French official report announcing the fail of Monastir follows: Troops of the Army of the Orient entered Monastir at 3 o'clock this morning. The anniversary of the [...] BRITISH CUT 7-MILE LINE AT 3 POINTS. --- Berlin Admits Loss of Grandcourt and Positions South of That Village and Southwest of Serre --- LONDON. Nov. 19---To-day's reports indicate a lull on the Somme and Andre lines, due probably to the "wet and stormy weather" reported by the British and French headquarters account. Telling of yesterday's British attack on the Andre, Berline to-day admitted tee lose of Grandcourt and British gains at two other points, though claming that on the while Teuton positions on the seven and a half mile front of attack "were retained or reoccupied by counter attacks." Southwes of Serre, in Grandcourt, and south of the village," says the Berlin statement, "we were pushed back." BRITISH NIGHT REPORT. The following statement was issued by the British headquarters to-night: In yesterday's operations in the Aucre area the prisoners taken numbered twenty officers and 712 men. This makes a total since the 13th of 6,912. FRENCH NIGHT REPORT. PARIS, Nov. 19.---The official French statement issued to-night says: Except for a violent bombardment of the fort and the region of Douaumont there is nothing to report on the whole front. BERLIN OFFICIAL REPORT. BERLIN, Nov. 19---The official statement to-day says: A fire against our positions on both sides of the Ancre made it probable that another English attack would be made. Cavalry appearing behind the hostile front yesterday and an enormous increase of the fire announced a new great attempt to break through. The attempt ended in a sanguinary English reverse, they being able at only a few places to make insignificant gains. Southwest of Serre, in Grandcourt, and at a point south of the village we were pushed back and now stand in a prepared position on the south of the Ancre. All our other positions on the repeatedly attacked front of twelve kilometers (seven and a half miles) were maintained or recaptured by counter attacks. Strong fire of the French artillery south of Sailly-Sallisel introduced attacks which broke down with heavy hostile losses on the northwestern edge of the St. Pierre-Vaast wood. FRENCH OFFICIAL REPORT. PARIS, Nov. 19---The afternoon official from headquarters in Fnance [[France]] says: The night was relatively calm on the whole front. It is confirmed that on November 16 Adjutant Dorme brought down his sixteenth German aeroplane. The enemy machine fell near Marchelepot, on the Somme. Walking Sticks [[subtext]] A Single-Joint All Bark Malacca Stick THE "Malacca" is the "king of canes." Not the ordinary shaved joint, painted stick, but an all bark, single joint cane with its natural patine. These are much prized by the man who knows and are valued for their rarity and individual characteristics. No two of these sticks are alike, hence each one is a gem judged on its own merits. We have made a specialty of [...]
